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Steve Saroff is a short-story writer, novelist, and inventor. He is the author, most recently, of the novel Paper Targets(Flooding Island), which spent 3+ months on Amazon Top 100 lists. His traditionally published short stories appeared in Redbook and other national magazines, and his work has been widely published in small publications, including Monkeybicycle, The University of Iowa's Examined Life Journal, The Jewish Fiction Journal, Bull Literary Journal, Cutbank, Arlington Literary Journal, Whitefish Review, The Montana Review, and others. Saroff dropped out of high school and drifted before starting and selling several tech companies, including FreeMail, the world's first commercially successful web-based email system, which was acqu ...more

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Steve S. Saroff Thank you Tammie for the kind words. I'm currently working on new book, which I hope to get published soon. This one will also be set in Western Monta…moreThank you Tammie for the kind words. I'm currently working on new book, which I hope to get published soon. This one will also be set in Western Montana. Also, my other published book, "The Long Line of Elk," has the origin story of the main character in Paper Targets. Again, thank you. - steve(less)
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Giveway for 'Paper Targets'

For Kindle owners. There is currently another giveaway of 100 copies:
Paper Targets: Art Can Be Murder here on Goodreads.
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“Clean clothes. Gentle talk. Someone to wake up with. Maybe relationships would work if they were based on present-tense actions that never looked for a future beyond the next day.”
Steve S. Saroff, Paper Targets: Art Can Be Murder

“But someone who has been busted broke, if they can take care of themselves from that point, they act different. They build their own fires.”
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“My sadness, and especially my joy, one moment was solid, but then the next it was empty space.”
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“But someone who has been busted broke, if they can take care of themselves from that point, they act different. They build their own fires.”
Steve S. Saroff, Paper Targets: Art Can Be Murder

“I find her most in solitary places: along the Blackfoot river in Autumn, a place she never saw, where red river rocks sparkle in the low water and dark trout pretend to be shadows.”
Steve S. Saroff, The Long Line of Elk

“Out this small window there is a halo of light, the Glory rainbow that scientists tell us is caused by ice crystals, but which my heart tells me is her bright memory.”
Steve S. Saroff, The Long Line of Elk

“Clean clothes. Gentle talk. Someone to wake up with. Maybe relationships would work if they were based on present-tense actions that never looked for a future beyond the next day.”
Steve S. Saroff, Paper Targets: Art Can Be Murder

“My sadness, and especially my joy, one moment was solid, but then the next it was empty space.”
Steve S. Saroff, Paper Targets: Art Can Be Murder

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Carl Paper Targets Art Can Be Murder by Steve S. Saroff Such great reviews! Congratulations!!!


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Carl Steve, I am pleased to see how many people are enjoying Paper Targets: Art Can Be Murder


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